You can watch Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld online in the UK at 2 video streaming sites: iTunes and Amazon. Below are some facts about The Great Ziegfeld from 1936. If you'd like to directly jump to the list of sites where you can stream this movie and see a comparison of the prices, please scroll to the bottom of the article.
1936 was a great year at the Oscars. According to the Academy members, The Great Ziegfeld was the Best Picture of the year 1936 and in total it won 3 Oscars, namely Best Picture and Best Actress.
Did you know that during World War 2, the statuettes handed out to the winners were made of plaster? These could be traded in with the regular gold-plated ones after the war. "The Academy" that awards the Oscars is "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" in the US. The Best Picture Oscar is regarded as the most important award at the Academy Awards.
According to Wikipedia, the movie The Great Ziegfeld can be described like this:
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical impresario Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Jr., Luise Rainer as Anna Held, and Myrna Loy as Billie Burke. The film, shot at MGM Studios in Culver City, California in the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
Some members of the cast of The Great Ziegfeld were:
- William Powell
- Myrna Loy as Billie Burke
- Luise Rainer as Anna Held
- Toni Mannix
- Frank Morgan
- Herman Bing
- Fanny Brice
- Ray Bolger
The Great Ziegfeld has a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 63%. The Rotten Tomatoes audience score for this movie is 52%. Here is what TIME Magazine has said about the movie The Great Ziegfeld:
Pretentious, packed with hokum and as richly sentimental as an Irving Berlin lyric, it is, as such, top-notch entertainment.
More information about the movie can also be found at IMDB.
The Great Ziegfeld won these awards:
- Academy Award for Best Actress for Luise Rainer for her role as Anna Held at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936
- Academy Award for Best Dance Direction at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936
- Academy Award for Best Picture at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936
According to Findable.TV, The Great Ziegfeld can be watched online at 2 sources. Some ways you can watch this movie online in the UK are as follows.
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